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Vanderbilt Audiology Journal Club: Hearing Aids in the 'Real World'

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1.  Which of the following was not a paper discussed in this course? Picou et al. (2023) - paper on newborn hearing screening brochures Jorgensen et al. (2023) - paper on listening situations in rural and urban areas Holman et al. (2023) - paper on emotion and hearing aids Lelic et al. (2024) - paper on positive experiences and hearing aids

2.  Which of the following methodologies was used by Jorgensen et al. (2023) to evaluate acoustic environments of adults with and without hearing loss? Participants read brochures and reported their understanding Participants completed surveys and wore hearing aids at home to record their activity and their acoustic environments Participants completed speech in noise testing in a variety of realistic listening situations and rated their effort Participants were fit with one of two kinds of hearing aids and reported their subjective preferences for hearing aid programs in their daily lives

3.  Which of the following most closely describes the results reported by Lelic etal. (2023) related to positive focus and hearing aid outcomes? Participants who had more office visits reported more hearing aid benefit than those who attended fewer office visits. Participants who listened to audiobooks through their hearing aids reported more hearing aid benefit than those who listened to nothing. Participants who focused on positive experiences during their 3-week trial reported more hearing aid benefit than those who described their auditory environment. Participants who had probe microphone testing reported more hearing aid benefit than did those without probe microphone testing

4.  The ACHIEVE study (Lin et al., 2023) demonstrated: Hearing aid use delays cognitive decline in older listeners. Hearing aid use prevents cognitive decline in older listeners. The relationship between hearing aid use and cognitive decline may depend on individual health factors Hearing aid use does not lead to clear benefits for the user.

5.  The discussion of Jiang et al., 2023 revealed: New information informing our understanding of the association between hearing aid use and all-cause and cause-specific dementia. It is important to explore new information regarding previously published studies. The power of using biobank data for exploring important research questions Scientific review by peers is unimportant.